Auto-schedule

Auto-schedule takes your open tasks and produces a plan of time blocks over a horizon of 1 to 14 days, seven by default: what to do, when, and for how long. It is a constraint solver rather than a language model. It respects a daily time limit, protected focus time, a daily ceiling on deep work and a separate ceiling on administrative work, and an energy mode that says whether your best thinking happens in the morning, in the afternoon, or wherever it fits. When the week goes wrong it can reschedule the work you missed, show you the change before you take it, and undo the latest rescheduling afterwards. If you turn on the switch that keeps your plan up to date automatically, Atlas also moves low-risk blocks for you when your calendar changes, tells you each time, and lets you undo the change. Anything it judges high-risk is not applied. It waits on this screen, where you can apply or dismiss each change.

• A grid of blocks over the horizon you choose, from 1 to 14 days, built from your real tasks, not a template
• A constraint solver, not a language model, with a simpler fallback when the solver runs out of time
• Energy mode: deep work early in the day, late in the day, or flexible, to say where the demanding work belongs
• Separate daily ceilings for deep work and for administrative work, from fifteen minutes to eight hours
• Missed work rescheduling, with a preview of exactly what would change before you accept it, and a button that reverts the latest rescheduling
• A switch, off by default, that lets Atlas keep your plan up to date: it moves low-risk blocks when your calendar changes, tells you each time, and lists the high-risk changes it held back so you can apply or dismiss each one

• Generating a plan does not change any task. Applying it is a separate action that you choose.
• The revert button undoes the most recent change in the rescheduling history: a missed-work rescheduling you accepted, or a change Atlas made automatically. This screen has no revert for a plan you applied by hand, so read the preview before you apply it.
• Only the first 50 open tasks are planned. A task with no estimate is planned as 60 minutes, every estimate is held between 15 minutes and 8 hours, and a block counts as deep work when it is 60 minutes or longer and as administrative work when it is shorter.
• Deep and administrative ceilings are daily, and a plan will leave work unscheduled rather than exceed them. Unscheduled work is a signal that the week is overcommitted.
• Keeping your plan up to date automatically is off until you turn it on, and the choice is yours alone in each workspace. It watches only a plan you applied, moves a block only when a calendar change lands on it, and applies only a small, clean change with nothing left unscheduled. A larger or less certain change is not applied. It is listed under Changes waiting for your approval, with the task, its current slot and the proposed slot, and nothing moves until you apply it. A change is marked out of date, and cannot be applied, once the task has been edited or moved since.
• A task that has to move is placed in the free slot nearest the time it had, inside your working hours. It is never placed in the past or after its due date, and when a slot before and a slot after are equally near, the later one is used.

1. 1Open Auto-schedule and set the horizon, the daily limit, the protected focus time, the daily ceilings for deep and administrative work, and your energy mode.
2. 2Generate a plan. The grid fills with blocks tagged by the kind of work each one holds.
3. 3Read what did not fit. That is the honest part of the plan and the reason to change something.
4. 4Apply the plan when it looks right, or adjust a constraint and generate it again.
5. 5If the week slips, preview a rescheduling of the missed work, accept it if the change is one you want, and revert it if it is not.
6. 6If you want Atlas to handle calendar changes for you, turn on Keep my plan up to date automatically. Turn it off at any time, and use the undo beside it to reverse the latest automatic change. Review anything it held back under Changes waiting for your approval.

Will it change my tasks without asking?

Not unless you turn that on. Planning produces a proposal, and applying it is a separate action. The switch that keeps your plan up to date automatically is off by default. When you turn it on, Atlas moves only low-risk blocks, sends you a notification each time, and lets you undo the latest change.

Why is some of my work not scheduled?

Because it did not fit inside your working hours and your daily limits. That is the plan telling you the week is overcommitted rather than quietly running past your limits.

Is the plan the same if I generate it twice?

Normally, for the same tasks and settings. The planner is a constraint solver with a simpler fallback, not a model, and the plan reports when the fallback was used.

What does energy mode change?

Where the demanding work goes. The morning option puts it early in the day, the afternoon option puts it late, and the flexible option lets it fall wherever the constraints allow.

What happens when I miss a day?

Preview a rescheduling. Atlas shows exactly which blocks would move before anything changes, and the change can be reverted afterwards.

What does keeping my plan up to date automatically do?

When your calendar changes and a block you applied now clashes with a new event, Atlas finds a new time for that task and moves it, but only when the change is small and clean. It checks about every 15 minutes. It then sends you a notification that names how many blocks moved and opens this screen, where you can undo the change. A change it judges high-risk is not applied. It waits for you under Changes waiting for your approval, and when changes are waiting, the notification says how many.

Can I undo a change Atlas made automatically?

Yes. The most recent change, whether you accepted a rescheduling or Atlas moved the blocks automatically, can be undone from this screen. Only the latest change can be undone, and a task you edited after it moved is left where it is.

What happens to a change Atlas does not apply?

It is held for you under Changes waiting for your approval, with the task, its current slot and the proposed slot. Apply makes the move through the same checks as any other planner change, so a task you edited or moved since is refused and the change is marked out of date. Dismiss clears the change, and Atlas does not show it again unless the task is displaced from a different slot.

Where does Atlas put a task that has to move?

In the free slot nearest the time the task had, inside your working hours. It never chooses a time that has already passed or a time after the task's due date, and when a slot before and a slot after are equally near, it uses the later one.